Somewhere I have a State Parks map with the State broken up into different regions, but I cannot find it right now. The same map might be on their website, as well--if we can find it, maybe we can follow that as a guideline for our regions, as well?_________________There comes a time in every young boy's life when he gets an irresistible urge to seek buried treasure.--Mark Twain

I learned of the association through the geocaching.com website. If you use the pull-down menu on the main page to select MN, it lists the associations for the state as well as the latest cache placements and travel bugs.

As far as the weather in CA, I was just using tongue-in-cheek to hide my true feelings about the state. It is overcrowded and overpriced (the median home in our county was $350,000 for a 2-bedroom piece of junk). In addition, I found many of the people there to be extremely materialistic and lacking any real substance. I have a 3-yo son and want to instill better values than that in him.

I don't think the DNR division maps are very useful for this purpose. It still divides the state into regions that are too large.

I think that a better system would be MN State Patrol Districts. This would result in more regions but this may be better in the long run as the sport gets more afficiandos. I was familiar with this map because I used to work as a transplant coordinator and had to contact different state patrol offices at times. I know its not perfect but I don't have any other ideas. Any other thoughts?